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Two phenomena have been present in multiethnic/multinational Bosnia and Herzegovina since its independence from SFR Yugoslavia: massive depopulation and strong nationalism(s). Although nationalism influences which nation/ethnic group should produce and how, the links connecting these nationalistic ideologies and pronatalist population policies in the country/entity have been, almost paradoxically, left on the margins of the previous studies. This paper asks to what extent nationalist ideologies are present in the pronatalist population policy discourse in the Serb-dominated entity Republic of Srpska and what nationalism it is. After developing Spectrum of Nationalism(s), a framework underlined by Siniša Malešević's views on nationalism and ethnicity as ideologies, the paper provides an overview of Bosnia's demographic processes and brief insights into Republic of Srpska pronatalist policies through a semi-structured literature review. Keeping in mind that media profoundly influences public opinion, discursively moulding policy debates, two most recent cases of pronatalist campaigns and programs in the Republic of Srpska: Let Our Children Be Born and National Programme of Demographic Revival, are analysed via critical discourse analysis (CDA). Selected media articles predominantly cover the period from 2018 onwards, concentrating on the commentaries of the ruling SNSD political nomenklatura. The analysis displays the powerful influence of nationalism on the discourse on population policies. However, on the spectrum of nationalism(s), civic nationalism seems only to be pro forma defined, while in RS's reality, the abovementioned path has continued toward an ethnonationalism direction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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It has been a long time since public libraries ceased to be places for borrowing books only. Along with the development of information technologies, libraries as well had to put some effort into being something more than just places where patrons come to borrow and return material from library holdings. In this article, the author will present the social role of a modern public library in the cultural and educational spheres of life through a program never held before at the National and University Library of the Republic of Srpska (NUL RS) in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina (BH). This program is entitled the English Reading Club (ERC). It started in February 2020 and is held once a month. The program is free and open to the general public. The most important qualities of the English Reading Club are bringing the community together, and encouraging lifelong learning by reading and discussing books on a regular basis in a safe and comfortable environment. The ERC combines the love for reading and learning with quality social time where its members talk not only about the material they read but also about the methods of English vocabulary mastery. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic that has practically locked down the whole planet, this program had to be adapted to the new situation and partially transferred online. Given that the members and leaders of the club are mostly English as Second Language (ESL) teachers, books conversations help them explore and apply new ways to encourage students' positive attitudes toward reading and mastering English vocabulary in their classrooms. Although the club is open for all book lovers, it turned out to be visited mostly by women. Thus, the English Reading Club at the National and University Library of the Republic of Srpska has appeared to be a program for female cooperation and education, too. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Republic of Srpska (RS) covers an area of 24,666 km2 or about 48.5% of Bosnia and Herzegovina's territory. Spatial and environmental changes accelerated due to dynamic historical period upon the RS formation and the following development period. The extent of these changes can be determined by comparing satellite images obtained from different acquisition periods. By processing images, with the support of geographic information systems, it is possible to create a database that aims to analyze spatial processes in a specific area in order to determine quantitative and qualitative parameters. In this way, the trends of spatial development (e.g. excessive logging, land cover damage, water pollution, etc.) and potentially vulnerable components of the environment can be monitored. The data for Bosnia and Herzegovina were collected from CORINE Land Cover (CLC) database for 39 European countries. The CLC is a project launched by the European Environment Agency (EEA) more than thirty years ago with the aim of collecting, coordinating and ensuring the consistency of information on natural resources and the environment. The goal of the paper is to identify land cover types and determine environment changes in the territory of Republic of Srpska over the period 2000- 2018 as a consequence of the land use conversion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is a complex state union composed of two entities and three constituent peoples. This fact is a consequence of the 1992-95 civil war, which changed the ethnic structure of BiH. From the institutional perspective, the two entities were given in Dayton a high level of political autonomy. The so-called "entity veto" was created in Dayton, and it is implemented by many key political bodies - from the House of Peoples and the House of Representatives of the Parliamentary Assembly of BiH to the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Beside that, it is argued that BiH lacks the "internal recognition" and many of the political actors advocate radical constitutional changes which would disrupt or even completely change the "Dayton" architecture of BiH. Because of that it is not surprising that secessionist rhetoric exists in BiH's political sphere. The secessionist rhetoric in the Republic of Srpska (RS) will be analysed in this paper and possible secessionist strategy will be described. The aim of this paper is to determine whether secessionist arguments, rhetoric and possibly politics represent an integral strategy and coherent political platform, or whether they are just generated for daily political purposes. Authors will also try to determine whether this secessionist rhetoric is "institutionalised", i.e. whether it is present in official documents of RS institutions and/or major political parties, or just in the activities of social movements and/or individual political subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective To establish and compare the incidence and trends of type 1 diabetes mellitus ( T1DM) in Republic of Srpska and Slovenia in age group 0-18 yr from 1998 to 2010. Methods The subjects (413 newly diagnosed T1DM patients in the Republic of Srpska and 664 in Slovenia) were grouped into the age groups: 0-4, 5-9, 10-14, and 15-18 yr. Confidence intervals ( CI) for crude incidence rates were estimated assuming numbers of cases were counts from the Poisson distribution. Gender and age-specific standardization was done according to the EURODIAB criteria. Statistical analysis used Poisson-regression models to analyze difference rate between countries and to investigate the incidence trend. Results Case ascertainment was estimated to be 99.95% for the Republic of Srpska and 100% for Slovenia by using the capture-recapture method. The standardized incidence of T1DM for age group 0-18 yr in the Republic of Srpska was 7.5/100 000/yr (95% CI: 6.8-8.3). For the same period and the same age group incidence in Slovenia was 12.5/100 000/yr (95% CI: 11.5-13.5). Annual increase in the incidence in the Republic of Srpska was 2.3% (95% CI: −0.3 to 5.0%), whereas in Slovenia 4.3% (95% CI: 2.2-6.5%). Conclusion The incidence for age group 0-18 yr standardized to the world population is remarkably higher in Slovenia than in the Republic of Srpska. Further follow-up and investigations are needed to explain the high difference in incidence of T1DM between the two geographically related countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the results of research of spatial and national distribution of foreign direct investments in Bosnia and Herzegovina through quantitative and qualitative analysis of the available data. For a better insight into the origin of investments and possible geopolitical interest of the investors, investing countries are grouped according to the criteria of similarity. The spatial distribution of foreign direct investment presented at the entity level complements insight into the connection between national or religious affiliation with the origins of the investment. Furthermore, analysis of foreign direct investment by sector of activity indicates a possible orientation of investing countries towards target branches of the economy. Using various geographic graphical methods, processed data are presented by a series of parallel graphics. Mutual incompatibility of the information provided by various state authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina produced some problems in processing of data. However, according to this analysis, the article confirms the initial assumption about the connection between the geopolitical interests of the countries investors and recipients in Bosnia and Herzegovina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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All relevant sources indicate high resistance of tourism as an economic sector, even during the global financial crisis, which is also reflected in the BiH economy. Institute of Economics of School of Economics in Sarajevo has published a number of research projects on this topic, Institute of Economics, University of Banja Luka made the Tourism Development Strategy of the Republic of Srpska, BiH municipalities sites are flooded with local strategies, the big cake (at least as far as the development of projects in the Balkans) is held by the New York Horvat. And electronic and print media in recent days, as in all previous election periods, have shown continually "our" smiling political candidates talking on BiH tourism industry (and agriculture) as well as development opportunities of almost every local community). Unfortunately, most of these studies, projects and promises has no practical use. One example, where "some concrete work and building is done" is Andricgrad, a project of the Government of the Republic of Srpska, the municipality of Višegrad and our famous film director Emir Kusturica. That iss why we have chosen this example for an economic analysis that could be of practical use to other stakeholders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Financial and economic crisis from 2008 created debt problems throughout the world, in developed and developing coutries. Although the problems cause by the crisis were similar for all coutries there were some specific diferences between them. Here, eff ects of fi rm's indebtedness in the Republic of Srpska are analysed in comparison with 15 European countries before and aft er the crisis, which serve as a benchmark. In the RS and also other considered countries in the collapse year (2009), the relative debt increases of under and over median fi rms diff ered drastically. In the main crisis year of 2009 the RS had 2 percentage points higher impact (relative to the Core European countries) of the fi nancial accelerator or/and correspondingly diff erent eff ect of the shape of fi rm investment distribution on the debt increase. In 2009, country specific eff ects on the debt build-up process disappeared for all other observed countries except the RS, while in the year aft er the collapse they disappeared in the RS and picked upped again in all other countries, showing lagging of the impact of the crisis as well as a milder eff ect in the RS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Here we provide the first confirmed records of Hemidactylus turcicus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Although this species was for a long time considered common in Bosnia and Herzegovina and it is included in the species list of the country, clear evaluation of the available scientific literature revealed the species presence in the country was never provided. Therefore, the aim of the note is the confirmation of H. turcicus presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]